Literatures, Languages, and Cultures MSc thesis collection
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Towards a theatre of pure eventuality: an ontogenetic reading of Sarah Kane’s Crave
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The main purpose of this dissertation has been to affirm the non-representative power of Kane’s latter work, as opposed to the movement ex negativo by which Crave’s formal features had been conceptualised as representative ... -
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle on Slavery: Transatlantic Dissentions and Philosophical Connections
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-27)Reflecting upon the fundamental role of public intellectuals in the nineteenth century, this dissertation focuses on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle’s epistolary friendship and examines their respective stances on ... -
The Conflict and Concord in Self-Representation of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-26)Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth as writers and speakers would consistently obfuscated permissible discourse, subverting the expectations as imposed on African Americans during nineteenth-century America. By obfuscating ... -
The crusades in Arabic poetry up to the death of Nur-ad-din
(The University of Edinburgh, 1970)The poetry of our period depicts this Muslim attitude very strongly. In almost every poem addressed to Zanki, Nur-ad-Din and Saladin we find this urge to recover"al-Bayt al-Muqaddas" (the hallowed house) by using the ... -
Some differing conceptions of the heroine in selected mid-Victorian novels
(The University of Edinburgh, 1981-06)In their studies of the social and moral conventions which appear to have governed Victorian attitudes to women, some present-day critics have made various statements and broad generalizations about such matters. For ... -
The Language Youth: A sociolinguistic and ethnographic study of contemporary Norwegian Nynorsk language activism (2015-16, 2018)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-26)Nynorsk is one of two codified orthographies of the Norwegian language (along with Bokmål) used by around 15% of the Norwegian population. Originating out of a linguistic project by Ivar Aasen following Norway’s separation ... -
Juan Bautista Diamante: a critical biography; together with, an edition and study of "La Magoalena de Roma", attributed to the same
(The University of Edinburgh, 1966)Half a century has now passed since Emilio Cotorelo y Mori published in the pages of the B.R.A.E. the first major study of the life and work of the XVIIth century playwright, Juan Bautista Diamante.While undoubtedly an ... -
Time And Relative Dimensions In Sebald: Time, space, and distance as phenomena, in W.G. Sebald’s documentary fiction.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018)This dissertation is the result of a project, grounded in the consideration of ‘time’ in the core courses of the ‘Literature and Modernity’ programme, into how the narrator[s] of and characters in W.G Sebald’s documentary ... -
Aspects of cultural relativity within Lebor Gabála Érenn
(The University of Edinburgh, 1999)Within this thesis I propose to conduct an investigation into the Lebor Gabála Érenn (LGÉ) from a primarily anthropological standpoint. In the course of my investigation I plan on accomplishing three tasks. The first ... -
Word and Image in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013)The verbal-visual aesthetic of Rossetti‘s Goblin Market is traced here. Chapter one briefly discusses the life of Christina Rossetti, showing how her experiences are attributed to her poetic works. The chapter not only ... -
Progressive primary education in a South African homeland : a review of Breakthrough to Literacy in Bophuthatswana
(The University of Edinburgh, 1987)The introduction of adapted versions of the British reading scheme Breakthrough to Literacy in South Africa and her "independent" homelands is significant in several ways. Firstly, it refocuses our attention on black ... -
Andrew Marvell and Privacy
(2007)As an elusive private figure who, by his own admission, was ‘inclined to keep [my] thoughts private’ and favoured ‘modest retirement’, Marvell experienced both extremes of private and public life in times when these ... -
Imagination and Growth: Coleridge and Wordsworth in Germany (1798-99)
(2007)On 16 September 1798 the packet boat with Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and his Nether Stowey friend John Chester on board sailed from Yarmouth to arrive in Hamburg three days later (Frank 220). ... -
Planning the Linguistic Landscape: A Comparative Survey of the Use of Minority Languages in the Road Signage of Norway, Scotland and Italy
(2008-06-26)This dissertation explores the controversial nature of current policies on the use of minority language place-names on official signage in Norway, Scotland and in Italy. Following a survey of recent developments in the ...